Senior Billing Specialist

Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm, advising clients on significant transactions and disputes. Our exceptional teams craft and deploy creative legal strategies that are meticulously tailored to every matter, however complex or high‑stakes. The firm’s work is distinguished by a unique combination of precision and vision.

Based in any of our U.S. offices, the Senior Billing Specialist will be responsible for managing all aspects of legal billing, including preparing, reviewing, and submitting invoices, ensuring accuracy and compliance with client and firm guidelines, and acting as a point of contact for partners and clients. The Senior Billing Specialist should strive to provide the highest-quality customer service by becoming a subject‑matter expert in all billing matters.

This role requires strong knowledge of legal billing practices, attention to detail, and effective communication with attorneys, partners, secretaries, clients, and the Billing Department.

The Senior Billing Specialist can expect to handle a high volume of work and will also mentor and guide junior billers, providing support to complete tasks accurately and timely. The candidate will obtain a full understanding of their billing matters and be able to identify and resolve complex billing discrepancies. This role reports to the Billing Supervisor.

• Preparing and processing legal invoices, ensuring accuracy and compliance with client billing guidelines, rates, and firm policies.
• Collaborating with the Pricing department to finalize and implement complex billing arrangements, including multiyear contracts, volume discounts, and alternative fee arrangements.
• Facilitating the preparation and submission of budgets and accruals for specified matters and providing variance analysis to attorneys as requested.
• Utilizing critical analysis to expertly manage the WIP, A/R, and on‑account inventories of assigned partners, and offering guidance to ensure inventories remain accurate and up to date.
• Demonstrating a strong understanding of e‑billing requirements for clients and e‑billing sites, effectively communicating those requirements to partners as needed to resolve e‑billing issues and providing useful direction to the e‑Billing team.
• Completing ad‑hoc billing requests as requested by partners.

• The ideal candidate will be willing to take initiative to complete tasks accurately and in a timely manner.
• Candidate should be a forward thinker and ready to contribute ideas toward the improvement of department processes.
• Must have outstanding written and communication skills and a professional phone manner.
• Comfortable interacting with all levels of the organization, including C‑Suite executives, Finance upper management, and senior attorneys.
• Must have excellent attention to detail and the ability to work well under pressure to achieve individual and team goals.
• Candidate must have the ability to balance multiple tasks with strict deadlines and to delegate work efficiently to meet these deadlines.
• An ownership mentality is absolutely essential for success in this position.
• Ability to work overtime when necessary.

• A minimum of five years of billing experience; experience in legal billing or a law firm environment is a plus.
• A college degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or a related field is strongly preferred.
• Experience with CMS Aderant or Elite billing software required; a high level of knowledge of all CMS Aderant billing applications is preferred.
• Strong technology skills, including knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (with an emphasis on Excel), are a must.

The annual compensation range for this position is $100‑115k. The salary offered within this range will depend upon qualifications and other operational considerations.

Benefits offered for this position include health care; retirement benefits; paid days off, including sick time and vacation time; parental leave; basic life insurance;
Flexible Spending Accounts; and discretionary, performance‑based bonuses.

Gibson Dunn will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal…